Thursday, September 27, 2012

Where is God?

Have you ever felt like you cannot be comforted from whatever it is that is bothering you? Maybe you feel like nothing will ever be right in your life again, that whatever hurts you will forever hang over your head.

You cry out the words, "Where is my help?" And the verse may come to mind, "My help comes from the Lord."

You think, where is God in this? Don't fret. You aren't the only one who has thought that. Even in the Bible, say in Psalm 119:82, it says,

Sure, there are answers to your problems in the Word of God. There are times, though, that you can read through the Bible and not find anything to help you deal with your problems. Or, you find them but they don't alleviate your worries and concerns.

So you keep praying, and you keep searching. Good. Keep doing do that. Because, you WILL find GOD the more you read the word and search for Him.

He hasn't moved. The problem is us. We aren't casting all of our worries on God. We aren't letting go of our problems and giving it to Him.

I've done this. I've prayed and prayed until I felt like my prayers were bouncing off of the ceiling. I felt like God wasn't hearing my cries for help, and I felt like if He was hearing them, He wasn't answering them.

That of course wasn't the case. The answers I wanted weren't in God's will. He was hearing me, and He was answering my prayers. He just wasn't answering them the way I wanted Him to, but after some thought, and a good read through Psalms, I knew that I had to "Let Go and Let God."

He wants to help us. He wants to comfort us, but we won't let Him. We, as humans, want to fix the problems ourselves. We want God to take a lead from us and follow our directions, but we can't do that. We have to follow God's directions for our lives - the Word.

When you feel like God isn't near, I beg you to reconsider your thoughts. God is right there. Waiting. Waiting on you to come to Him and let Him be the Father that He wants to be. He wants to comfort His child. It isn't His will to make us suffer. We make ourselves suffer by not giving into Him and falling into His loving arms that are waiting for us.

Psalm 121: 1, 2

"I will lift up my eyes to the hills - From whence comes my help? My help comes from the Lord, Who made heaven and earth."

I encourage you to read the rest of Psalm 121. I encourage you to read through Psalms when you're hurting. God wants to help you. God IS your help. Just call on Him, cast your burdens on Him, and He will deliver you.

Psalm 55:22

"Cast your burden on the Lord, And He shall sustain you; He shall never permit the righteous to be moved."

1 Peter 5:6, 7

"Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time, casting all your care upon him, for He cares for you."